Example sentences of "pin [pron] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pahdra Singh mounted the pavement in his Bentley this morning and pinned me to the window of the Wimpy Bar . |
| 2 | As for Joe , who blithely missed a fracture a yard across , she could have pinned him to the wall with a scalpel , she was so cross . |
| 3 | Ever since that morning when he 'd briefly pinned her to the mattress , gazing down at her so intently that his eyes had seemed to search her very soul , she 'd realised that she was in deep trouble . |
| 4 | The victim claimed that the Canadian bullion dealer had ‘ slapped her , pinned her to the floor and ripped off her trousers ’ . |
| 5 | The marquis pinned her to the ground by her shoulders , sitting astride her so that she could n't move . |
| 6 | She said a third man , Lee Thompson , had pinned her to the ground during the alleged incident at Mr Cowen 's flat in east London on 31 May , 1991 . |
| 7 | Angry Brian Reatus , 44 , allegedly foamed at the mouth as he pinned him to the wall . |
| 8 | Reeling from the onslaught , he toppled forward but managed to keep his feet until a second attack pinned him to the wall and held him there . |
| 9 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 10 | He clawed at the broken wheel that first dragged him across , then pinned him to the road . |
| 11 | TINY tot Stuart McKane is lucky to be alive today after a kitchen oven fell and pinned him to the floor . |
| 12 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |
| 13 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 14 | On the morning of 9 November , Sydney sighted Emden and pinned her to the shore of Keeling Island , one of the Cocos group , on which a German party had been landed to destroy essential cable and wireless installations connecting Australian , African and Indian telegraph systems . |
| 15 | Gravity still pins us to the planet . |
| 16 | Terrified that it would try to escape or fly away , and not wanting to risk the Corporal 's anger , I pinned it to the ground by leaning a large stone against it . |
| 17 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 18 | For a long time he held the photograph , fingering it gently , careful not to mark it , and then he pinned it to the cork-board on the wall . |
| 19 | ‘ All right ! ’ he bit out harshly , suddenly , taking her wrists and pinning them to the bed , breathing raggedly . |
| 20 | Frantically Shannon tried to wriggle away , but he was too fast for her , his large body effectively pinning her to the mattress , and when she tried to slap him he caught her flailing wrists and held them fast on the pillow above her head . |
| 21 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 22 | There seemed to be a weight on her chest , pinning her to the ground and not letting her breathe . |
| 23 | She was suffocating , it was squashing her , pinning her to the ground . |
| 24 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 25 | With these words the forty-eight-year-old accounts clerk leaped at Quigley 's throat and , pinning him to the floor , started to bang his head on the dust-sheets that shrouded the household 's £700 Persian carpet . |
| 26 | The wounded bird plummeted to earth like a dive-bomber , its beak piercing G. F. Westerby 's chest and pinning him to the ground . |
| 27 | The enraged animal charged into Christopher Rogers , pinning him to the ground . |
| 28 | He sprang up with a cry , and in the same moment the tent collapsed upon him , pinning him to the ground under its heavy folds , and the hammering rain held it there , flattened crushingly over his breast , moulding itself to every feature of his face , so that he was nearly suffocated . |
| 29 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 30 | For over twenty years , Hugo had masterfully deployed the metaphor of the wave : he had bent the wave to his own ends , he had coupled it to revolution , to love , to Napoleon , to centuries , pinning it to the page in alexandrines and rhymes . |